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    What is your usual practices to kick-start the lesson plan?

    What is your usual practices to kick-start the lesson plan?

    In this exercise, a team of students listed out a number of tasks that they have to complete when preparing the lesson plan. Which of the following task will be listed as the top priority on your to-do list? Will you start searching at this moment?

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    Lesson planning Teaching Information literacy
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    What is critical to learning at U?

    What is critical to learning at U?

    In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce shares her view on "Why InfoLit is vital?" through the search & research they do every day.

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    Study skills Learning Information literacy
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    What are the six frame of informed learning

    What are the six frame of informed learning

    In this slide, it introduces the six frames for informed learning, suggested by Prof. Christine Bruce, would help learners brainstorm about the research topic in all-rounded, comprehensive way. The six aspects of your research topic that you should brainstorm for are: (1) Content frame, (2) Competency frame, (3) Learning to learn frame, (4) Personal relevance frame, (5) Social impact frame, and (6) Relational frame.

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    Learning Information literacy
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    Want to test your knowledge on Primary and Secondary Sources?

    Want to test your knowledge on Primary and Secondary Sources?

    In this exercise, learners are required to distinguish the information belong to "primary sources" or "secondary sources". Primary information source are anything created at the time when the incident/event happened. They were created with the intention to record the incident/event. It could be a document, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, a diary, an artifact, and so on. Secondary information source is anything (e.g., documents, records, artifacts, objects, and so on) that discuss, relates, or refers another piece of information existing elsewhere.

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    Information resources Research -- Methodology Information literacy
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    The role information and information literacy play in 4 steps methods for creating refutations

    The role information and information literacy play in 4 steps methods for creating refutations

    In this slide, it explains the 4-steps-method outlined by the University of Pittsburg and it illustrate the role information and information literacy play in each step to help learners to see the bigger picture.

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    Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
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    The advantages of being information literate

    The advantages of being information literate

    In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate give you critical and strategic approaches to solve problems. It's you who need to decide using which type (e.g. research or non-research based) of information to support ideas, claims, and proposals that you propose in your research task.

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    Study skills Learning Information literacy
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    Seven things about info. needs of research

    Seven things about info. needs of research

    In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains the seven things you should pay attention to when you plan the information needs of your research. (1) Use information and communication technology to be really up to date with what's happening. (2) Encounter different types of sources and knowing when it's important to use them. Not only academic literature but also people, social media, the environment, visual information, sound, anything that might inform you. (3) Create your processes to tackle problems or make decisions. (4) Connect information of all kinds that you encounter with specific projects, problems, or areas of interest. (5) Build your knowledge base about your fields of study. (6) Use your creativity and intuition to do something new. (7) Seventhly using information wisely for the benefit of others.

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    Study skills Learning Information literacy
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    How would knowledge about evaluating & select information benefits my learning?

    How would knowledge about evaluating & select information benefits my learning?

    In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being able to evaluate information in leisure, home, or professional situations is an essential skill. Our information world is always changing, and shelf-life of most information is no more than two years!

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    Study skills Learning Information literacy
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    How would it change my U-learning if I'm knowledgeable in creating new ideas and knowledge?

    How would it change my U-learning if I'm knowledgeable in creating new ideas and knowledge?

    In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate help you find creative and innovative ways of doing things, which is invaluably advantageous to your wider profession.

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    Study skills Learning Information literacy
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    Further personal competencies and skills

    Further personal competencies and skills

    Apart from subject domain knowledge, there are some personal competencies and skills that learner may want to develop in university. The personal competencies and skills include, critical thinking, evaluating definitions, evaluating arguments, evaluating news & media, evaluating scientific studies, evaluating disagreement, and evaluating statistics & graphs.

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    Critical thinking Media literacy Journalism -- Social aspects Information literacy Press criticism
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